While the city prepares for the heavy winds and downpour that will accompany the passage of Tropical Storm Franklin, residents won’t be allowed to purchase alcohol. That’s because a decision has been taken to prohibit the sale of liquor until an all-clear has been issued after the storm. That decision, says Willoughby, was agreed upon […]
As we mentioned a news five team is currently in Corozal Town. Tropical storm Franklin is scheduled to hit north of Corozal, along the Yucatan coast in Mexico. Residents are prepared and our crew found that the town is rather calm. Reporter Duane Moody and cameraman Rick Romero file this report. Duane Moody In […]
As of five p.m., a total of six shelters have been opened. In Corozal Town, Our Lady of Guadalupe R.C. School in Altamira and Church of Christ School in Port Saul. While four others have been opened in the coastal villages of Copper Bank, Sarteneja, Progresso and Chunox. DEMO coordinator Willard Levy says that all […]
Sometime after nine on Sunday night a fire in Belize City claimed the life of toddler. He was left home alone when a fire started at his house and neighbours were unable to get him out because he was locked in when his mother went to the shop to buy. The fire claimed the baby’s […]
A toddler lost his life in the fire on Santa Barbara Street and more than ten persons are without a home. The four families lost everything they owned after the fire spread from house to house in the yard. We spoke with three of the affected families today who told us that they are staying […]
Since the fire on Sunday night, CEMO has been on the ground assisting the displaced families. CEMO, along with Ministry of Human Services and other local partner agencies are providing support to more than ten persons who lost everything to the blaze. Since last night they were moved to the St Martin’s School where they […]
There was an apparent murder overnight in the City. The body of thirty-nine-year-old Thomas Staine, known as “Kun”, was retrieved from the Collet Canal near the Yabra Bridge this morning, hours after his taxi was collected from an area closer to the center of town. He had been stabbed and had his hands bound. But […]
A traffic accident over the weekend at the Crooked Tree Junction at mile thirty-one on the Phillip Goldson Highway claimed the life of twenty-year-old UB student Alma Flowers. Flowers was struck as she crossed the highway by a vehicle with Belmopan license plates traveling from Orange Walk towards Ladyville and driven at the time by […]
It was named for Belize’s first woman parliamentarian and Education Minister, and is located in the constituency of current Deputy Prime Minister and Education Minister Patrick Faber. But with just a few weeks to go before the start of classes, Gwen Lizarraga High School could see its principal, Dr. Lorna McKay, forced out. This afternoon […]
Twenty-six Belizeans prepared to embark on the journey of a lifetime to the Far East to pursue educational opportunities with the support of the government of the Republic of China (Taiwan). They were awarded scholarships in various disciplines by the Taiwan International Cooperation and Development Fund and Taiwan Scholarship Program respectively, including airfare, accommodations, tuition, textbooks […]
Ambassador Charles Liu has weighed in on the sixty million dollar grant awarded to Belize by the Taiwanese government. His comments are in relation to the six hundred and fifty million U.S. dollars that neighboring Guatemala received in grant and loan from the island nation to construct a road to the harbor community of Puerto […]
Older persons in Belize will now have a specialist assisting with their physical therapy. HelpAge Belize, after three years of lobbying with the Ministry of Health, now has a Cuban physiotherapist who will be assigned to HelpAge Belize and its various outreach centers, including the Sister Cecilia Home for the Elderly, and the Inspiration Centre. […]
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Two persons lost their lives in separate road traffic accidents on Thursday. Perhaps the more heart-wrenching of the two occurred just after four p.m. on the Iguana Creek Road in Spanish Lookout, Cayo. Thirty-three-year-old Stephen Hochstetler Senior ran over his fourteen-month-old daughter as he reversed the family’s SUV out of the yard. Hannah was rushed […]
There was another fatal accident overnight in the west. Sometime after nine p.m. on Thursday night, Police Constable Edgar Coh, who is attached to Roaring Creek Police Station, was on his way to a special duty assignment on his motorcycle. But upon reaching Camalote Village on the George Price Highway, he lost control of the […]
A family of four is admitted to the Southern Regional Hospital in Dangriga in stable condition following a traffic mishap. Forty-seven-year-old Benjamin Paul, an American national, was driving a black Jeep Liberty registered to Barefoot Rental between Dangriga and Belmopan. He was accompanied by thirty-six-year-old Katherine O’Brien and two children Rafael, aged six, and Carmelita, […]
For the second time this week a murder has been reported in Orange Walk Town. While involving less drama than the sensational shooting between friends Daniel Sosa and Hilmar Alamilla last Saturday, the death of eighty-five-year old retiree Gregorio de Leon at his home in the Marcus Canul area north of the town center is […]
The sensational story of the murder of Daniel Sosa in Orange Walk over the weekend has left many with questions – particularly as it relates to the alleged killer. Forty-two-year-old Hilmar Alamilla, associate of former government minister Gaspar Vega, was arrested and charged on Monday in connection with Sosa’s murder. Today, when the media got […]
San Ignacio Police say that investigators continue to gather evidence in the shooting death of Jose Castellanos, as the shooter, Nevis Betancourth remains hospitalized in a stable condition after being chopped to the arm. According to one report, Castellanos was at “Comida Belicena y Latina” restaurant in Santa Elena on the night of July twenty-eighth, […]
Roger Bradley has several previous convictions for crimes of dishonesty, but tonight he is a free man, after Justice Denis Hanomansingh set him free on Thursday from a burglary charge. Bradley was serving a seven-year prison sentence after being convicted of a 2014 home burglary at the Freetown Road residence of Luana Sosa, from which […]
Chief Executive Officer Patrick Andrews, who recently assumed that post with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, formally introduced himself to the media this morning during a brief press conference here in Belize City. Following his assignment as Permanent Representative of Belize to the Organization of American States in Washington, D.C., Andrews returned to the country […]
There have been new developments in Guatemala over the past two days in respect of referendum proceedings on whether its age-old territorial dispute with Belize should be taken to the International Court of Justice for resolution. As we reported earlier this week, Guatemala’s Supreme Electoral Tribunal, similar to Belize’s Elections and Boundaries Commission, voted all […]
According to Ambassador Rosado, at the moment there is nothing on Belize’s table of events insofar as the pending referendum. He says that while the Special Agreement contains a clause which requires both countries to agree to go to the ICJ, should Belize or Guatemala say no, the long-standing claim will live on. Alexis […]
Guatemala, with significant financial assistance from the government of Taiwan, is proceeding with the construction of a road that will span the length of that country all the way to Puerto Barrios. The cost of the infrastructure project is an estimated six hundred and fifty million U.S. dollars, monies which have been granted and loaned […]
There was once a local political campaign slogan that read, “It’s all about trust.” But with a less-than-stellar reputation for corrupt practices and a poor record for ease of doing business, most Belizeans seem resigned to the idea that they must sometimes do shady things to get what they want. Whether true or not, the […]
